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Determine Record Add/Change and change date fields accordingly

06-24-2011, 05:45 PM

When a record is added to a table I want to update my "date_entered" field with a calculation, date(). After that initial entry date entered will never change. When any field in a record is changed I want to update my "date_changed" field with a calculation, date(). I've looked at Record_Update()=.t. and Record_Add()=.t.. I've also tried to play around with events on the form. Anybody have any ideas on what is the best way to do this. Thanks

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After starting the thread some other similar threads appeared at the bottom of screen. I used the technique of date_entered being a default expression of Date() with the boxes checked for at the beginning of data entry and if not touched. For date_changed I used a calculated field and date() as the expression. Both my fields are hidden and not used on forms. Seems to work well.

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NO, NO, NO - Don't do it that way! You're just asking for trouble in the future. (You got the Create date right but not the Change date.)

This is a very common mistake. Read this post for some reasons for using Create/Change dates in EVERY table (you might be doing that already) then - MOST IMPORTANT - follow the link in that post to an explanation of a much better way to set the Change date.